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new_guinea_tribes: New Guinea Highlands tribes (1954)
A network of friendships among tribes of Gahuku-Gama alliance structure of the Eastern Central Highlands region in New Guinea. Edge sign indicates either friendship ("rova") or enmity ("hint”).
This network has 16 nodes and 58 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Signed
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Understanding traffic
I bike to work and to lots of other places because I don't like traffic (and the Boston area has traffic) and I don't like looking for parking.  Lots of other people choose to drive despite the traffic, but almost every single person in traffic complains about traffic.  I don't want to just go with the glib "you ARE traffic", but instead, maybe help people understand what causes traffic congestion and why, because if we don't understand t…

Understanding traffic
I bike to work and to lots of other places because I don’t like traffic (and the Boston area has traffic) and I don’t like looking for parking.  Lots of other people choose to drive des…

Helsinki just went a full year without a single traffic death
https://www.politico.eu/article/helsinki-no-traffic-death-roads-eu-accident-finland-driving-transport/

Helsinki just went a full year without a single traffic death
The capital city is Finnish’ed with car-related fatalities.

Pear And Butter Bean Traybake #plantbased

Pear And Butter Bean Traybake
Try this pear and butter bean traybake for a mix of sweet and savory flavors with high protein beans, potatoes, and carrots.

»Immer weniger echte Nutzer — Studie zeigt massiven Anstieg von Bot-Traffic im Web:
Menschliche Website-Besucher:innen werden zur Mangelware: Eine neue Analyse zeigt, wie Google, ChatGPT und Co. mit ihren Bots die Spielregeln im Netz verändern - und warum Publisher Alarm schlagen.«
Bots gibt es schon seit den Internet-Anfängen und auch die missachten bewusst die robots.txt Anweisungen.
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Immer weniger echte Nutzer: Studie zeigt massiven Anstieg von Bot-Traffic im Web | t3n
Menschliche Website-Besucher:innen werden zur Mangelware: Eine neue Analyse zeigt, wie Google, ChatGPT und Co. mit ihren Bots die Spielregeln im Netz verändern – und warum Publisher Alarm schlagen. Im zweiten Quartal 2025 ist die Zahl echter Besucher:innen auf Websites um rund zehn Prozent gesunken. Gleichzeitig hat sich der Anteil automatisierter Aufrufe sogar vervierfacht. Während Anfang […]

"Scott Bessent just confessed that Trump has been lying in his claims about tariffs."
Scott Bessent Fact Checks Donald Trump's Lies about Tariffs - emptywheel
https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/09/04/scott-bessent-fact-checks-donald-trumps-lies-about-tariffs/

us_air_traffic: U.S. air traffic
Yearly snapshots of flights among all commercial airports in the United States from 1990 to today. Metadata include passengers, distance, carrier, airport located city, state, and month of the flight.
This network has 2278 nodes and 6390340 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Airport, Unweighted, Metadata, Temporal

Seoul breaks century-long record with 22 'tropical nights' in July #Seoul

Seoul breaks century-long record with 22 'tropical nights' in July
A streak of super-hot tropical nights broke a century-old South Korean weather record, according to official data released Thursday, as the peninsula bakes in a prolonged heat wave.

Wednesday the Supreme Court hears arguments on the legality of most of the president’s tariffs
— the first case to reach the justices in a series of high-stakes tests of Trump’s sweeping claims of authority.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/20

Supreme Court has expanded presidential powers under Trump. How far will it go?
The justices will hear arguments Wednesday on the legality of most of the president’s tariffs — the first in a series of tests of sweeping claims of authority.

Trump’s tariff threats have turned into a play for cold, hard cash
as he tries to leverage U.S. economic power to cajole other nations to make multibillion-dollar investments in order to maintain access to America’s market.
The president’s second-term trade agenda has clear echoes of his “Mob Boss” approach,
essentially demanding that trading partners show him the money in the form of investment pledges or else face astronomically high tariffs

Trump’s Demand to Trading Partners: Pledge Money or Get Higher Tariffs
President Trump is using an “Art of the Deal” approach to get other nations to hand over cash to lower their tariffs.